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Ai is a monster that needs to be caged!
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Find where it works for you & ignore the rest!
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The Flood of Spam Emails
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Baker Plbg
Okay, i can't imagine my inbox is different than your inbox, but there is there is not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from some nitwit telling me that they can get me more leads, more jobs, more blah, blah, blah, blah. blah bla i don't know.
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Baker Plbg
Anyway, and so I just got one this morning, and it's from Aubrey, which is clearly not her
AI Promises Jobs for Baker Plumbing
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Baker Plbg
name. Her name's Aubrey Baker.
00:00:29
Baker Plbg
Anyway, it's clearly a robot. But hey, is Baker Plumbing open to receiving more plumbing jobs from homeowners in Calgary? I mean, it's one of those questions that you have to say, yeah of course, why wouldn't we want more plumbing jobs? We use AI agents to find and qualify homeowners looking for help and then connect them with local companies that can take the work. Are
AI Lead Generation: Reality or Illusion?
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Baker Plbg
you interested? Let us know more or let us know.
00:00:53
Baker Plbg
The killer is is this is this is exactly the same tactic that they would use for your customers. This is AI saying that they use AI to get you more leads. So you say, yeah, sure.
00:01:05
Baker Plbg
You send them $500 or whatever the whatever the number is, and they, like, spam 5,000 people saying, hey, Baker Plumbing would love to work for you. like when do When do we realize that it's all just a shell game, a house of cards, when we understand these that there's there's no merit to this stuff?
00:01:26
Baker Plbg
They can't... And if this is a real person, and I've had this happen on LinkedIn where people are real and they send me messages saying, yeah, we use AI, of then why aren't you using AI right now?
Real People, Real AI?
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Baker Plbg
If it's so good... at generating leads. Why are you wasting your time typing away messages to me directly if it works so well? Well, you know, because and they always have their list of reasons, but it's all
The AI Retreat of Big Companies
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Baker Plbg
BS. And I was talking to ah a gentleman last night that was talking about, we were talking about AI and how it's starting to, the cracks are starting to show because Uber has now dropped it.
00:02:07
Baker Plbg
They don't use AI anymore because it's so terrible. And I think the other one, I should look it up. Hang on, I'm going pause for a second here. So I just Googled it. It's worse than I thought. So Starbucks doesn't use it anymore.
00:02:19
Baker Plbg
Microsoft, Microsoft canceled licenses for cloud code do due to out-of-control token usage, escalation of costs across development teams. So they're done. Uber's out.
00:02:31
Baker Plbg
ah McDonald's doesn't use it anymore. ah Anyway, but basically says major corporations and tech companies are are increasingly pulling back and scaling down their generative AI initiatives.
Critical Thinking and AI Hype
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Baker Plbg
As with everything, they think it's this is the solution for everything. No, it's far more nuanced than you know the investors, the people that are selling this shit would like us to think. And so you've got to use your brain, man. You've got to use your brain when it comes to this stuff because the people that are pushing AI are selling AI and they make money off of AI. And so if I was the only dude selling toilets in the world, I would tell everybody, you need a brand new toilet.
00:03:14
Baker Plbg
100%. And you got to buy it from me. And I have the best toilet in the world. And nobody can compete with me. Blah, blah, blah. And it's $700 just for the toilet. Anyway.
00:03:25
Baker Plbg
ah So it's interesting. On Reddit, it says 42% of companies are quitting AI.
00:03:35
Baker Plbg
It's on its way out.
AI vs. Electric Cars: A Balanced View
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Baker Plbg
And I don't mean it's going to be gone. It's going to be like the electric cars. I've said that a few times. You know, if you live in Southern California, electric car is great.
00:03:46
Baker Plbg
The weather is good. You you clearly, um you know, if you live within five kilometers of your work, electric works all day long. Do it. Love it. But it doesn't work for me.
00:03:58
Baker Plbg
I put on 700 miles a day or can in minus 40. You're telling me i my a and and I got a truck full of of ah tools and parts and the whole nine yards. It doesn't work for me. It's not going to work for me. It's it's not a...
00:04:15
Baker Plbg
blanket solution. It's far more
Using AI Wisely and Ethically
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Baker Plbg
nuanced. And once we realize that, you'll understand ah you know how it can apply to your life as opposed to, oh we got to put a data center in every effing country, in every city, every small town so that we can turn it into the surveillance state, which we all know.
00:04:33
Baker Plbg
And if you don't know that or you think that that's not what they're trying to do, then you should read a book. ah and Get off the internet. As usual, those are my thoughts, not yours. I hope everybody has a fabulous day. Use AI where it's useful to you and throw it in the trash where it's not.
00:04:51
Baker Plbg
that's That's the message of today. Have a fabulous day, by the way.